The story
From tele- + parallelism.
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Today it means: An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field. Full definition →
From tele- + parallelism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.